TO-DAY'S WIZARD'S.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S WIZARD'S.

—~~r —? 1 ' "X i »pheoy and wizard-craft were lievet easy callings, and our modem professors of these arts must bo reflecting sadly on the fact. to-day, for Scotland Yard has risen against- them, and issued tl decree which will strike at the foundation of ■ thoir profession," says the "Telegrapli," apropos of the Commissioner of Police's action in prohibiting them to make public announcements of their trade. "How greatly tile latter-day wizard has been flourishing recently may be judged from the statement that there are over 150 fortune-teUors in the neighbourhoods of Regent Street and Oxford Street alone, while in the entire district covered by th' l Commissioner's decree no fewer than 700 men and women, a large proportion of thc-m of foreign birth, di'aw very, substantial incomes from the pockets of the weak and credulous. Probably the number of clients of these professors of the Black Art would be still wore surprising if it •could ho disclosed."